Hairball then drool and spit at the mouth?

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I woke up this morning to my cat trying to cough up a hairball on my bed, me not wanting it on my bed I placed her down onto the floor. Just seconds after she had the hairball she went behind my chair and started making sneeze-like noises while drool and bubbles came from her mouth. I've read that drooling and foam is a result of poisoning, but because she started doing it RIGHT after the hairball I feel like that isn't the case. The spit and bubbles along with the sneeze-like noises went on for about 8 minutes. I grabbed a wipe as she was bubbling and drooling (that got onto the floor) and wiped her face. The top of her nose was messy from her hairball and then her mouth was just wet and spitty. We don't have any poisonous things in our house really, no traps or rodent/bug poison. We do however have people working downstairs on our kitchen but she normally never goes down there because she's afraid of the workers. She's an indoor (I guess) persian cat. I let her out in the front or backyard every once in a while but I haven't done so in about a week. Right now I'm sitting with her and she seems fine. Her nose is a bit red and normally she gets that when she's in the car, which I think is a sign of dizzy or nauseousness. When I try to play with her right now she doesn't really do anything. She opened her mouth as if she was throwing up like three times. I just wondering if it's still the poisoning, or something else because she had a hairball a few seconds before? Should I be worried?
 
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UPDATE: As I was finishing up this post I found her and she had some spit dripping from her mouth.
 

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Yes, please...take her to a Vet--do not delay...this is urgent..
 
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